Hi John: Thanks for the info. I don't use the Braille Lite but the Powerbraille with a regular keyboard, so what is the command sequence fromt he keyboard (without chords)? Does anyone know? thanks ... Barb On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, John J. Boyer wrote: > Barb, > BRLTTY doesn't start until after the kernel is loaded, so it can't > display anything at the time when the menu for chosing between OS's is > displayed. There may be a way to get grub to just put out a string on > the port to which your braille display is connected, but I haven't been > able to get this to work with lilo. My system is set up to just wait > forever with the menu displayed. When i type the name of the OS I want, > it then displays a smesage saying loading such-and-such on my Braille > Lite. After a short wait I then see the message BRLTTY 3.0 or something > similar, then there are a whold bunch of boot messages that go by, som > so fast that I can't read them. Note that the Braille display must be in > speech box mode for BRLTTY to work. Use the following sequence to get > into the correct speech box mode. dots 345-chord (ar-chord), p-chord. > That is all I can say. It is possible to make boot floppies that include > BRLTTY, but I have not tried it because the normal rescue floppy that > Redhat makes brings up brltty in about fifteen seconds anyway. > John > On Mon, 12 > Aug 2002, Barbara J Wagreich wrote: > > > Hi Listers: > > > > I sent the enclosed message over the weekend and received two responses > > that suggested I use grub instead of lilo to set up boots to > > multienvironments (windows 98, windows 2000, and Red Hat linux). It is my > > understanding that grub creates a menu. I am wondering if this menu is > > visible to brltty or whatever at boot time. The two respondents couldn't > > answer this question because they don't use adaptive devices. > > > > Does anyone on the list have experience with menus created by grub for > > multi OS environments with braille displays? Or is there another wayto > > set up multiboots that is accessible? > > > > Thanks for your help! > > Barb > > > > > > On Sat, 10 Aug 2002, Barbara J Wagreich wrote: > > > > > Hi All: > > > > > > I'm new to linux but have worked on UNIX. > > > > > > I'm sure you've discussed this topic before. I'd appreciate your > > > feedback. > > > > > > I am having a PC set up with three operating systems: > > > DOS/Windows 98, Windows 2000, and red Hat linux 7.2. I will be using > > > brltty > > > (I can't hear). A friend is doing this for me. (I would be using JFW > > > with Windows 98 and Windows 2K.) > > > > > > what is the best way to set up the multiboot sothat I can choose which OS > > > I want to invoke? Also, should the three partitions containing the 3 > > > operating systems be hidden from each other? > > > > > > Thanks for your help! > > > Barbara Wagreich > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > > -- > Computers to Help People, Inc. > http://www.chpi.org > 825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703 > >